in a world where the was missing recently much of. the island on al-jazeera. as the u.s. and the taliban prepare to sign a preliminary peace deal the afghan armed group tells us it will uphold women's rights. a woman won. that global harbored. and their right to work reports accept and give them a sport but islamic rules but only that they observe that egypt. hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm marty dennis also coming up south korea reports its biggest daily increase in corona virus cases since the 1st

infection was confirmed last month. u.s. stocks have their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis as investor concern mounts about the economic impact of the virus. the. uproar at the french oscars over roman polanski is best director award why does he elicit such anger more than 40 years after his rape conviction. after a week of what was described as a reduction of violence in afghanistan the u.s. and the afghan taliban are expected of a provisional peace deal that could put an end to america's longest running war.

for president trump is sending his top diplomat to kassa for the historic signing and says the afghan people should embrace the child it's all the new feature but there's still a long way to go the deal is seen as a possible fest phase the next step would be for the taliban to talk with the government in kabul in order to decide the future of the country. is our correspondent and she has more from washington certainly the taliban would like to see all u.s. forces leaving afghanistan that is something which the u.s. president donald trump has campaigned on but realistically the 12213000 u.s. troops are probably going to be cut by about a 3rd or so the pentagon has said repeatedly that it would feel comfortable having about $858600.00 u.s. troops inside afghanistan for counterterrorism purposes and to provide all going to

training and advising support to the afghan military the other issue which still has to be reworked out apparently is what happens to the taliban fighters who were taken into custody by the afghan military essentially prisoners of war certainly the taliban would like those people to be released but there is concern apparently a kabul for having these people removed from custody and possibly capable of carrying out security activities against the government or against the afghan people again those things should be spelled out in more detail on saturday after the signing ceremony. correspondent and some of inge of aid has spoken exclusively to taliban spokesman surveils shahid that he hopes the deal will bring stability to afghanistan. it is significant for a our people for our country in the whole region. because for 4 of one people

they will have their independence they will. see their creation ending and also for the original that when stability and peace return to our plan is that there will be a phase of. commercial activities and development and we have built a shrine of our premised on so that's really really important and significant for us it has and will be of reduction of violence the plan is to expand it but there in the attacks have not stopped taliban have attacked convoys off the afghan government there have been skirmishes as well what makes you think that peace in the venison is going to come about by this agreement and of course it was a deduction in war lintz as we call it to provide a secure in one in water went before the signing after agreement and that we did it

and and the other thing is that there was some kind of war you we have not attacked any convoy in the a few trees in the territories held by the coverlid ministration. the some of those convoys were attacked when they came out from their places and into to our trees so that was a kind up or why nation and our. people on the ground they stopped it you don't accept cobbles government as the legitimate government you call it a line at ministration how are you going to be talking to them because that is the biggest sticking point that the taliban would not agree to talk to the afghan government how have you come to terms with that as a god meant we did not regret equalise it. because we think. product of for and the result of the occupation which has been installed in impose

on the people of our party stand back to as a party to the complex it is our reality and we accept that they are a party to the conflict and in that sense we will. during now into our new bush ation we will talk to them besides other of onsides so this is the 1st phase the taliban and the americans have agreed to some terms about the gradual withdrawal of u.s. forces is the election violence what are the terms of that agreement and what happens next you know after the us after the signing of the agreement of course we will. have had the confidence building measure and during that 5000 prisoners of war the islamic community about one is done in 1000 prisoners of the kabul administration will be released and when we finished our complected

complete this phase then we enter another phase which is negotiation during that phase we will have discussion among all of on sides and they will discuss the future islamic goldman turned affords him abilities in other. words that they may bring to the table. south korea has reported its biggest daily increase of coronavirus cases since the 1st infection was confirmed last month health officials say almost another $600.00 people have been infected and that brings the country's total to almost 3016 people have died in south korea which has the biggest outbreak outside of china meanwhile in china itself another 47 people have died 427 new cases were reported but only 4 of these. new cases are outside of the epicenter in a province and that's the lowest tally on the mainland outside of the province

since china started to release data now as the world health organization raises the risk assessment of the virus to the highest level possible around the world there are signs that it is indeed spreading in the united states a 2nd person in california has been infected with no known travel history nor contact with anybody who's already infected but reynolds has more now from los angeles. this is a person who is in northern california described as a woman who had some underlying respiratory disease problems and her doctor sent her to the hospital she was tested there and tested positive for the corona virus she has now what the important thing here is that she didn't get it on a cruise ship she didn't meet with someone who just got off a plane from will hon she hasn't been to italy or iran or south korea or any of the other places she got coronavirus here in the united states and now in addition this

person lives in a community about 145 kilometers from the 1st possible community transmission case in who was the identified earlier this week so that seems that there's 2 at least 2 separate clusters of transmission in northern california this is called community transmission and what it means is that it's circulating in the community one person gets sick another person will get sick another person will pass that on to others and then this is what happened in italy in south korea etc important to note that no one has been placed under any kind of quarantine in northern california except for the 2 patients who are receiving care in hospitals well there are fears that current virus will tip the world economy into recession china's manufacturing activity has fold into its lowest level on record would label

stock markets have ended the week well down in new york played out jens is on its west drawn from all than a decade as christian salumi now reports. the smiles at the new york stock exchange couldn't mask what was a disastrous week for world stock markets friday's trading only deepening the losses the dow jones index ended down 13 percent from record highs with u.s. markets seeing their biggest weekly selloff since the 2008 financial crisis it's been a similar story for london's main footsie 100 index in stocks in europe while no fewer than 7 markets in asia have lost more than 10 percent of their value fuelling the plunge the spread of the coronavirus outside of china deserted streets in milan heightening concerns that coated 19 is making an inevitable march across the globe and raising fears about the negative effects that efforts to stop the disease could

have on the u.s. economy fears the white house again trying to tamp down on friday everybody whether you're investor or with your you know ordinary main street person. if you will not overreact it's proving to be a huge test for larry could lows boss president trump who since he took office has championed record high stocks as an endorsement of his presidency but conversely sees a falling market as someone else's fault namely the democrats competing to unseat him in this year's election i think the financial markets are very upset when they look at the democrat candidates standing on that stage making fools out of themselves and they say if we have a president like this i think that has a huge effective but world health experts including in the u.s. continue to warn about the dangers of the virus and critics like his democratic presidential challengers have slammed downplaying of the threat saying that he

cares more about the market reaction rather than containing the virus itself experts say uncertainty surrounding the threat is causing jitters it's not an economic effect exactly it's a virus and it's not a blind faith you want to have in the central banking structures of the world virus and epidemiology a little bit outside their general mandate and no matter how much you want to ignore political risk when countries and industries start to collapse with an epidemic it's hard to know how to do this week's losses put an end to an unprecedented period of growth for u.s. markets whether or not the panic selloff continues will depend only on the spread of the coronavirus but also messages coming out of the white house christian salumi al-jazeera new york. that the u.s. is reviewing options to support the turkish army in northwest syria dozens of turkish troops were killed by syrian government forces on thursday mostly un chief is described as one of the most alarming moments in the 9 year war the security

council held an emergency session following the attack gabriel elizondo reports from the u.n. in new york. u.n. secretary general antonio gutierrez described the killing of over 30 turkish troops in northwest syria as one of the most alarming moments in the almost decade long conflict the most pressing needs is any media at ceasefire before the situation gets entirely out of control you know by contacts with those involved by halves and one simple message step back from the edge of escalation just hours later gutierrez again delivered that message during an emergency meeting of the security council this is the council's 3rd session in the last 10 days on the syrian conflict a sign of how dire conditions are on the ground the u.s. along with the e.u. and u.k. asked for the meeting and made it clear it stands by turkey and against what it calls syrian and russian aggression in the days ahead the united states' commitment

to our nato ally turkey will not waver turkey has our full support to respond in self-defense to unjustified attacks on turkish observation post that resulted in the deaths of their own forces russia dismissed the notion that turkish forces had been intentionally targeted forgot to do not the bit in the the coordinates conveyed didn't mention areas where ultimately turkish soldiers died as soon as it became clear that it happened the russian side took exhaustive measures to seesaw civilities turkey's ambassador had a different account let me on the line that turkish forces that weren't dug were a log in that. the logical conclusion of that is that they were deliberately. we had grown coordination in writing with russian forces about locational. and

is slate's continued despite all immediate warnings right of the dignity of the clearly the secretary general wants to end the bloodshed but when he was asked if the warring parties are ready for an immediate cease fire he answered simply i don't think we're there yet i hope or there in the near future gabriels on doe al-jazeera at the united nations. still to come here at al-jazeera pledging to annotate every israeli settlement in the occupied west bank benjamin netanyahu ramps up his reelection campaign i mean am in downtown santiago catches fire a mystery surrounds what might have started it. hello welcome to look at the international forecast is not looking too bad now

across a good part of north america had a cloud still in place to that eastern side of canada but some pieces of sharon little bits of lake effect snow that just around the lakes into the northeastern corner but for many it's got its b a k a little of the dull side into the northeast the driest dry cost much of north america central as of canada we have got this wintry mix making its way across the sea pushing through alberta easing further east which over the next russia showers around the mountain states into the pacific northwest and it'll sink its way further south which as we go on through sunday so there will be some wintry weather snow flurries sente over the rockies central parts of kind of they're moving through scott she won easily over 3 manitoba heading towards the east over the next couple days want to see showers around the deep south but for many of the said it's fine and dry today is no great shakes but 6 celsius in new york. for the time if you come down into the camera been falsified and dry weather hit say because this line of cloud which just makes its way down towards the yucatan peninsula it's been

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all right let's have a catch up then of the main stories here it out 0 the u.s. and the afghan taliban are expected to sign a preliminary peace deal that could put an end to almost 2 decades of war the u.s. secretary of state might compel is due to come here to don't are to sign the agreement later on saturday. south korea's reported its biggest in daily increase in coronavirus cases since the 1st infection was confirmed last month will miss another $600.00 people have been diagnosed bringing the country's total to almost 3 hours a. second person in california with no travel history nor contact with existing cases has been infected with the virus the world health organization has raised its

risk assessment of the outbreak to the highest level across the world. now a u.s. appeals court has ruled that the trumpet ministration can no longer make asylum seekers way to mexico all their claims it dealt with almost 60000 people have been sent back to wait for hearings since the remain in mexico policy took effect in january last year the government can appeal to the supreme court which has consistently sided with the president on immigration and border security policies. and for a 2nd time president has nominated republican house member john ratcliffe to lead the country's spy agency last year trump had withdrawn radcliffe's nomination after republicans in the senate joined the democrats to question his record it was revealed then that ratliff misrepresented his background he has represented

a texas district since 2015. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has pledged to annex every israeli settlement in the occupied west bank he's hoping to use this to win voters over as the country heads into its 3rd election in less than a year. in the last week of the israeli election campaign a visual reminder to voters of prime minister benjamin netanyahu has pledged to annex every illegal israeli settlement in the occupied west bank what you guys really do. remember. who was joined by u.s. ambassador david friedman and the rest of the joint american israeli committee he chairs mapping out exactly where the trump white house would recognize permanent israeli sovereignty i mean for you to get the mapping is on its way in order to allow the imposing of the israeli law on these territories and later getting american recognition nonetheless it isn't quite what netanyahu promised in

washington a month ago he said he'd begin annexation before the election then the white house put the brakes on it's complicated his bid for supporters of the far right parties in places like efrat illegal settlement in bethlehem the anticipation and excitement and the disappointment suspense they haven't influence the polls at the moment into such a level that i can say. this has been the gang since instead netanyahu has been focusing on settlement construction around east jerusalem announcing thousands of new housing units in areas that would further undermine the notion of a territorially unified palestinian state this is a dangerous policy and we consider this an act. of. destroying the peace process there are also plenty of israelis who believe annexation doesn't serve what they consider the jewish state that it could make a binational state eventually a majority palestinian one more likely i think they might have overreached because

by talking about annexing all the settlements this really terrifies the one half of israel that has understood the demographic danger to zionism of non-separation from most of the palestinians so i don't think he's going to go to the left this way but after 3 consecutive campaigns most minds are made up the game is more about motivating turnout and persuading voters to shift allegiance even the announcement of netanyahu is corruption trial date it starts just 2 weeks after the election appears not to have harmed him in fact the polls suggest that anyone who's overtaking his rival benny gantz although not by a margin that would give him a majority coalition in parliament in the end the imminent annexation of places like this has become one issue among many in this campaign with netanyahu everywhere all the time talking about everything from security to diplomacy to the coronavirus but should he win or should he be in charge of another caretaker administration after another inconclusive election his campaign promise on an extension could become very real ari force at al-jazeera in the occupied west bank

. as several actresses of walked out of the french film awards after roman polanski won the says prize for best director he's wanted in the united states for the statutory rape of a 13 year old in 177 polanski didn't attend the event because of protests against him taking place outside the 87 year old's latest film an officer and the spy was nominated for 12 awards the awards entire board stepped down this month in part because of the backlash over polanski's nominations. to some not the police so it's a complicated and moral question but if you want my personal opinion about it it seems that dishonest to separate the men from the artists and listen steidl above all the actress who is taking a stand and spoken out very strongly brilliantly the well thought out intelligent way in a way that was not at all accusatory or didn't fall she couldn't have state sitting

in a chair appalling it wouldn't have made any sense she would have been criticized for so of course she was right. or less speak to daniel smith rouse he now is a professor of film history as at mary's college of california he's joining us now from berkeley thanks for talking to us do you think that the actresses who protested in all of those outside the event in paris you think they're right they're justified to be protesting against the nominations and the eventual receipt of the prize of roman polanski. it's complicated but if i had to come down on one side yes i do side with these actresses i think ultimately. by giving this man an award you're saying that women and other people cannot feel safe on a set run by polanski and that that you can't you can't have that you just can't stand age i don't see how you can tell women and other people that they're that they

could be shouldn't be safe on a set that just doesn't make sense to me so why do you think that the film boldin the official the official behind these awards and it's not just in front of course is it it's around the world why do you think that the film industry seems to be lagging so far behind what is becoming increasingly popular opinion. right that's a great question i do think these things are a little bit on a case by case basis and it is difficult unfortunately even a conversation like ours. you can move the conversation to the perpetrator and not the victims you know we probably don't spend enough time talking about the women and the victims in these cases but i as far as why the industry is lagging behind yeah. i don't think they always do i do think some there are certainly some directors and some other creatives that are are not going to be working again certainly in hollywood france has their own issues they i see articles written in

the law and that aren't necessarily they don't even have the landscape name they're just saying how the meat into movement hasn't really come to france for a lot of reasons or it hasn't been as effective so you know it i i mean it's hard to quickly say what's exactly the reason i suppose they can some french can separate the art from the artist is what they would tell you i don't know about that i think that's that's tough because we have so many great artists right now i mean dead if they're not even getting a voice so why you know why not hear from some of them who don't have this kind of track record of abuse in our right and so i don't i don't i don't know ok are fair and fair enough what's your opinion then of harvey weinstein. do you think that that is going to make a significant difference to the industry. i mean i hope

so it's hard to say these are these are early days and obviously i wasn't i i don't know any more than most of us do about what exactly happened to victims i mean i have to take annabella sure and these other people at their word but you know but i do think yes if he hadn't been found guilty it would probably there'd be a muted message to the rest of the industry and industries around the world it would be so this is important to sort of draw a line in the sand and save we you know we this whatever might have been acceptable 10 years ago for example when 100 creatives wrote a petition to beg the swiss government to release polanski whatever that may have been 10 years ago we can't you know we need to continue to have higher standards need to continue to believe victims or at least believe them more than we did in the past and so i i do think i'm i'm happy about the weinstein verdict i think yeah look and we need to keep going forward with these cases we need to do better if

you've got us we've talked about this on this show before thanks for having me on before and i'm happy that this is moving in this direction i think it's it's it's great it's more justice for more people on sets and i hope it continues you know right daniel smith throttle thanks very much until her death live from california to you. the capitol is on fire after fighting broke out between protests and drug police it followed a day of otherwise peaceful demonstrations in santiago over a critical report from amnesty international on the country's human rights situation a latin america editor. that reports were outside the village that part of a museum which is on fire at this hour firemen are trying to put it out this is the 2nd time that this museum which is emblematic in santiago has been set on fire by arsonists nobody knows exactly who did it firemen are telling us to get out of here because there could be a gas leak but this is what has turned out to be the end of what had been

a very peaceful afternoon of protests here any as i would just just about 200 meters away from here. earlier in the afternoon people were seeing and dancing it was a very very jovial scene here about now that it is start we're seeing barricades and many believe this is just a prelude to the type of disturbances and violence that will also be accompanying peaceful protests the social change in care starting next march of this coming marjorie just just around the corner protests to say they're going to be coming out onto the streets in bigger numbers than ever because they say that the government has not responded to the people's demands for real social change. gamey has delayed a constitutional referendum which was planned for sunday because of concerns over the electoral register president says the vote will now take place. if possible to allow the 81 year old to stay in power for another 12 years earlier

this week an organization of french speaking governments withdrew its poll monitoring mission citing problematic entries on the electoral register. there's a look at the top stories here at out jazeera the u.s. and afghan taliban are expected to sign a preliminary peace deal that could put an end to almost 2 decades of war secretary of state might pompei is due to come to doha to sign the agreement later on saturday south korea has reported its biggest daily increase in corona virus cases since the 1st infection was confirmed last month almost another 600 people have been diagnosed bringing the country's total to almost 3000 a 2nd person in california with no travel history nor contact with existing cases

has been infected with the virus the world health organization has raised its risk assessment of the outbreak to the highest level possible across the world a u.s. appeals court has ruled that the trumpet ministration can no longer make asylum seekers way to mexico while their claims are being dealt with almost 60000 people have been sent back to wait for hearings since the remaining mexico policy took effect in january last year the government can appeal to the supreme court which is consistently sided with the president on immigration a matter of border security. actresses of the french film awards after roman polanski won the says our prize for best actor is wanted in the united states for the statutory rape of a 13 year old $77.00 polanski didn't attend the event because of protests taking place outside. the police so it's

a complicated and moral question but if you want my personal opinion about it it seems that dishonest to separate the man from the artist and listeners did above all the actress who is taking a stand and spoken out very strongly brilliantly the well thought out intelligent way in a way that was not at all accusatory or vengeful she couldn't have state sitting in a chair appalling it wouldn't have made any sense she would have been criticized for so of course she was right. capital is on fire after fighting broke out between protesters and riot police followed a day of otherwise peaceful demonstrations in santiago over a critical rights report from amnesty international one o one east is next. we understand the difference is. of cultures across the wound so no matter how you take a. current affairs.

when chinese or persons clamp down on what they see as an wanted for illegal activity. they knowingly make the must they pressure the accused to confess until a. lawyer who comes to. their aid be the right one state media. often before any formal conviction on this episode of one o one east we investigate china's public confession of a real or just to show. their feelings for some of these people. i apologize sincerely for this 'd very sorry. do.